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Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, Gloria Angelica, Foppa Chapel, Church of San Marco, a typical example of art of the second half of the 16th century in Milan. The Milanese art scene of the second half of the 16th century must be analyzed by considering the particular position of the city: while for the Spanish Empire it represented a strategic military outpost, from the religious point of view it was ...
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Masolino, Banquet of Herod, Castiglione Olona. In the first half of the 15th century, Lombardy was the Italian region where the International Gothic style had the greatest following, so much so that in Europe the expression ouvrage de Lombardie was synonymous with an object of precious workmanship, referring especially to the miniatures and jewelry that were an expression of an elitist ...
Visual arts portal; Pages in category "Painters from Milan" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 286 total. This list ...
Ambrogio Figino, Portrait of St. Charles Borromeo (1585), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. With the advent of the Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation Church, ecclesiastical authorities exploited art as a means of spreading the new doctrines in opposition to Protestantism and other heresies; art was therefore subjected to strict canons and controls so that artists depicted episodes from ...
From his interest arose the idea of creating a cultural centre for the city to train artists and men of letters according to the canons of the Counter-Reformation, [21] to whom paintings and texts would be made available, as well as teachers, in order to promote art and culture within the city. [22] Work on the complex began in 1603: after ...
This is a list of painters from the Italian city of Milan This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Gio Ponti (1891–1979), Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher; Aldo Rossi (1931–1997), Italian architect and designer, one of the leading proponents of the postmodern movement, laureate of the Pritzker Prize in 1990; Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007), Italian architect and designer